The Great Conde and the Period of the Fronde, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Great Conde and the Period of the Fronde, Vol. 1: A Historical Sketch The House of Bourbon is descended ifrom a younger son of St. Louis. Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, who died in the. Year 1536, left three sons - Anthony, Duke of Vendome, who by his marriage with J eanne djbret became King of Navarre, the Cardinal of Bourbon, whom the Catholic League afterwards proclaimed King of France in opposition to his nephew, Henry IV. And Louis, first Prince of Condé. Louis embraced the reformed tenets, and was the leader of the Huguenot party in the religious troubles which broke out in France after the death of Henry II. He was an ambitious and turbulent prince of great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.